Yahoo! Widgets Blog

Konfabulator 4.5: Cool Developer Features

As you may or may not have seen by now, we’ve released the new Yahoo! Widgets/Konfabulator 4.5. This version was a major undertaking, and there are four particularly cool and important features in it for developers. HTML Flash Full W3C DOM Fine-grained Security HTM... something or other Yes, you can now embed HTML into your Widget, ...

Yahoo! Widgets 4.5 is Here!

First of all, a hearty thank you to all our friends running Leopard for your patience over the last few weeks. We’re very happy to announce the latest version of Yahoo! Widgets has arrived, and we hope you agree it was worth the wait. It’s officially called Yahoo! Widgets 4.5, ...

The Newness is Here!

A lot's happened in Widgetland since we first launched the widgets.yahoo.com site more than 2 years ago. Of course we've shipped a couple major versions of Yahoo! Widgets, and we've improved the site with additions like our Widget badges and the in-page installer. But in that same time, the catalog ...

Leopard and Yahoo! Widgets 4

If you think we're talking about jungle cats, you can stop reading now. For the rest of you, I don't need to tell you that today is the day Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is getting released. I also probably don't need to tell you that Leopard doesn't play so nicely ...

Maybe We Do Need Badges After All

Desktop software is messy. Install, update, and uninstall are hard problems for both developers and consumers. I can't imagine anyone's happy with the status quo, and it's even more challenging if you're delivering software via the Internet (and who isn't nowadays?). But now, we’ve taken a big step in improving ...

Widget Update for All!

Some of you out there in Widget-land may have noticed that we taught a few of the Widgets we build a neat new trick – how to update themselves without the end user ever having to leave his/her desktop. We've wanted this feature for some time, and so have other ...

Widgets, Security, and You

We take our users’ security seriously here at Yahoo!. Because a big part of what people love about our product are the thousands of Widgets created by independent authors that are available through the Yahoo! Widget Gallery, our commitment to security extends to those Widgets as well. Every Widget in ...

Current Events in Developer Town

Two months? Really? Well, less time blogging means more time working on cool things, and there certainly are quite a few cool things coming down the pipe! In the meantime, let's talk developers. Some of this was covered at last month's Developer Day, so those of you that were in ...

Vote for Us (because we're fun to hang out with)

Apparently, we've been been selected as a finalist in the 'Browsing' category for this year's Webware 100 awards. Don't believe us? Here's proof: While we're flattered, we're also a bit confused as to how we got placed in the same category as some great apps like Bloglines, Greasemonkey, and Firefox. How ...

Debugging Goodies

It's about time for some tips and tricks, and today's post is all about using the debug window more effectively. Evaluate! In 4.0.3 and later, we've changed the debug window's evaluate field to actually do what it says now: evaluate. Pretty clever (read: about time). So for example, where you used to ...